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Cary Elwes
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Ivan Simon Cary Elwes, known professionally as Cary Elwes, is an English actor and writer. He is best known for his roles in such as The Princess Bride, Glory, Robin Hood, Men in Tights, Days of Thunder, Bram Stokers Dracula. Twister, The Jungle Book, Liar, Liar, and Saw and he has also had recurring roles in series such as The X-Files and Psych, and currently stars in the Crackle series The Art of More. Ivan Simon Cary Elwes was born on 26 October 1962 in Westminster, London and he is the brother of artist Damian Elwes and film producer Cassian Elwes. His stepfather, Elliott Kastner, was an American film producer and his paternal grandfather was painter Simon Elwes, whose own father was the diplomat and tenor Gervase Elwes. His other great-grandfathers include the diplomat Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell, Elwes has Croatian Jewish, Irish, Serbian, and Scottish ancestry. His Croatian and Serbian roots come from his grandmother, Daška McLean, whose second husband. One of Elwes ancestors is John Elwes, who is alleged in sources to have been the inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. Elwes himself played five roles in the 2009 film adaptation of the novel and his paternal relatives include such clerics as Dudley Charles Cary-Elwes, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Northampton, Abbott Columba Cary-Elwes, and Father Luke Cary-Elwes. He discussed this in an interview while he was filming the 2005 CBS television film Pope John Paul II, Elwes parents divorced when he was four years old, and in 1975, when Elwes was 13, his father committed suicide. For his education, Elwes attended Harrow School and he then attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. In 1981, he moved to the United States to study acting at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, while living there, Elwes studied acting at both the Actors Studio and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute under the tutelage of Al Pacinos mentor, Charlie Laughton. As a teenager, he worked as a production assistant on the films Absolution, Octopussy, and Superman. When Elwes introduced himself to the actor, Brando insisted on calling him Rocky after Rocky Marciano. He went on to play Guilford Dudley in the British historical drama film Lady Jane and he was then cast as a stable boy turned swashbuckler Westley in Rob Reiners fantasy-comedy The Princess Bride, based on the novel of the same name by William Goldman. It was a modest box office success, but received critical acclaim, since being released on home video and television, however, the film has become a cult classic. Initially the studio didnt know how to market, in the end they sold it as a kids movie and it largely had to rely on word of mouth. People tell me they still have their VHS copy that has passed down from one generation to the next

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Elaine Hendrix
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Katherine Elaine Hendrix is an American actress, model, producer, singer, dancer, and activist. She is best known for her roles in the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap, Inspector Gadget 2, and the 2004 documentary What the Bleep Do We Know. Hendrix was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the daughter of Mary Elaine DePersio, of Italian, Irish and Danish descent and her father was away from home serving in Vietnam at the time of her birth. A week after being born, with her mother considering the name Jennifer, most of her relatives called her by her middle name, and the practice stuck, but it forced Hendrix many times to explain the middle name. She has a brother, David Maher, and a sister, Hendrix was raised in Morristown, Tennessee. When Hendrix was 15, she and her mother moved to Atlanta, Georgia, Hendrix currently resides in Los Angeles. She is regularly involved with humanitarian efforts, animal rights, cancer research, in her senior year of high school Hendrix won a model search and became a professional dancer with the Gary Harrison Dance Co. In 1992 she moved to Los Angeles, California, and shortly after moving was hit by a car while riding her bike, ending her career as a model. After recuperating from her accident, Hendrix was cast in the short-lived 1995 Get Smart series and she has also appeared on the television series Joan of Arcadia, Friends, Ellen, Charmed and CSI, Crime Scene Investigation and had a recurring role in Married. With Children, User Friendly and Lez Be Friends, in 2006, she also appeared in an episode of Ghost Whisperer and the movie Coffee Date. In 2008 Hendrix appeared in two episodes of the now cancelled ABC Family show The Middleman as Roxy Wasserman, a succubus who works as a fashion designer. She was seen in Criminal Minds in season four, episode 11 where she played a woman called Judy Hannity in a car accident caused by a man shooting her, in 2009 Hendrix made an appearance on the ABC show Castle and in the film Rock Slyde. In 2010 Hendrix played Felicia in the TriBeCa awarded film Spork, Hendrix has also appeared as Renee on 90210 in Season 3 in Theyre Playing Her Song and Holiday Madness. In 2014, she appeared alongside Charlie Sheen for a story arc as Warden Hartley in the FX sitcom Anger Management. She can currently be seen in the web-series Fetching, which is also a nod to her love of animals and she also co-starred as Ava in FXs new comedy series Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll with Denis Leary, Elizabeth Gillies, John Corbett, Bobby Kelly and John Ales. As an avid animal rights activist, Hendrix has been advocating for animals since 2006, when shes not filming, she travels throughout North America and works with organizations around the globe to educate, demonstrate, speak, protest, build habitats, transport and rescue. In 2012 she founded The Pet Matchmaker, a dedicated to celebrating and inspiring the rescue, foster. She serves on the board of Stray Rescue of St. Louis as well as the US chapter of No to Dog Meat, official website Elaine Hendrix at the Internet Movie Database

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Christopher Lloyd
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Lloyd has an equally prominent television profile, having won two Primetime Emmy Awards for playing Jim Ignatowski on the comedy series Taxi. He earned a third Emmy for his 1992 guest appearance on Road to Avonlea and he has also done extensive voiceover work for animated programs, most notably voicing The Hacker on the PBS Kids series Cyberchase. The role earned him two Daytime Emmy Award nominations. Lloyd was born on October 22,1938, in Stamford, Connecticut, the son of Samuel R. Lloyd, Jr, a lawyer, and his wife Ruth, a singer and sister of San Francisco mayor Roger Lapham. He is the youngest of four girls and three boys, one of whom, Samuel Lloyd, was an actor in the 1950s and 1960s. Lloyds maternal grandfather, Lewis Henry Lapham, was one of the founders of the Texaco oil company, Lloyd was raised in New Canaan, Connecticut. Lloyd began his career apprenticing at summer theaters in Mount Kisco, New York, power Failure, and, in mid-1972, appeared in a Jean Cocteau double bill, Orphee and The Human Voice, at the Jean Cocteau Theater at 43 Bond Street. Lloyd returned to Broadway for the musical Happy End and he performed in Andrzej Wajdas adaptation of Dostoyevskys The Possessed at Yale Repertory Theater, and in Jay Broads premiere of White Pelican at the P. A. F. Playhouse in Huntington Station, New York, on Long Island, in 1977, he said of his training at the Neighborhood Playhouse under Meisner, My work up to then had been very uneven. I would be one night, dull the next. Meisner made me aware of how to be consistent in using the best that I have to offer, but I guess nobody can teach you the knack, or whatever it is, that helps you come to life on stage. His first movie role was as a patient in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. In 1985, he was in Street Hawk the pilot episode, in 1986, he played the reviled Professor B. O. Beanes on the television series Amazing Stories, Lloyd portrayed the star character in the adventure game Toonstruck, released in November 1996. In 1999, he was reunited onscreen with Michael J and that same year, Lloyd starred in the movie remake of the 1960s series My Favorite Martian. He starred on the television series Deadly Games in the mid-1990s and was a regular on the sitcom Stacked in the mid-2000s, in 2003, he guest-starred in three of the 13 produced episodes of Tremors, The Series as the character Cletus Poffenburger. In November 2007, Lloyd was reunited onscreen with his former Taxi co-star Judd Hirsch in the season-four episode Graphic of the television series Numb3rs and he played Ebenezer Scrooge in a 2008 production of A Christmas Carol at the Kodak Theatre with John Goodman and Jane Leeves. In 2009, he appeared in a trailer for a faux horror film entitled Gobstopper

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Mary Steenburgen
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Mary Nell Steenburgen is an American actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing the role of Lynda Dummar in Jonathan Demmes 1980 film Melvin and Howard. Her other film appearances include Cross Creek, Parenthood, Back to the Future Part III, Philadelphia, Whats Eating Gilbert Grape, Elf, The Brave One, Step Brothers, The Proposal, and The Help. Steenburgen is also a humanitarian who is involved with various groups ranging from human rights to environmental causes. Steenburgen was born in Newport, Arkansas, to Nellie Mae, a secretary, and Maurice Steenburgen. She has a sister, Nancy Kelly, a teacher, after graduating from high school, Steenburgen enrolled at Hendrix College to study drama. She subsequently traveled to Dallas, Texas at the suggestion of her teacher to audition for a slot in New York Citys Neighborhood Playhouse. Steenburgen moved to Manhattan, New York City in 1972 after being selected by the Neighborhood Playhouse to study acting and she worked as a server at Magic Pan and for Doubleday while studying under Will Esper. Steenburgen had a role in the 1979 film Time After Time as a modern woman who falls in love with author H. G. Wells. Another notable film appearance came in the well-received 1983 film Cross Creek, in which she played Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, in Back to the Future Part III, Steenburgen played Clara Clayton, a school teacher who falls in love with Doc Brown, played by Christopher Lloyd. Dirty Girl, which features Steenburgen along with Juno Temple, Milla Jovovich and William H. Macy and she had a small part in A Walk in the Woods as Jeannie. In television, Steenburgen starred as Kate Montgomery in the CBS sitcom Ink with her husband, Ted Danson and she had a recurring role as herself with Danson in the HBO sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm. Steenburgen co-starred as Helen Girardi, the mother of Amber Tamblyns title character in the CBS fantasy/family drama Joan of Arcadia, in 2011, she had a recurring role as Josephine in the HBO sitcom Bored to Death with Danson again. Steenburgen starred as Anastasia Lee in the 2011 FX pilot, Outlaw Country and she finally appeared on FX in the dark sitcom Wilfred from 2011 through 2013 as Catherine Newman, the title characters eccentric and mentally ill mother. Steenburgen had a role on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock from 2012 to 2013 where she played Diana Jessup. In 2014, she began a role as former Dixie Mafia boss Katherine Hale in the fifth and sixth seasons of the FX crime drama Justified. On June 13,2014, it was announced that Steenburgen would have a role as Delia in the Netflix crime comedy-drama Orange Is the New Black in the third season. Currently, she plays Gail Klosterman on The Last Man on Earth, in 1978, Steenburgen met and began dating actor Malcolm McDowell while both were co-starring in Time After Time

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Crime film
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Crime films are a genre of film that focus on crime. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, films dealing with crime and its detection are often based on plays rather than novels. Agatha Christies stage play Witness for the Prosecution was adapted for the big screen by director Billy Wilder in 1957, the film starred Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton and is a classic example of a courtroom drama. In a courtroom drama, a charge is brought against one of the main characters, another major part is played by the lawyer representing the defendant in court and battling with the public prosecutor. He or she may enlist the services of an investigator to find out what really happened. However, in most cases it is not clear at all whether the accused is guilty of the crime or not—this is how suspense is created. Often, the private investigator storms into the courtroom at the very last minute in order to bring a new and this type of literature lends itself to the literary genre of drama focused more on dialogue and little or no necessity for a shift in scenery. The auditorium of the theatre becomes an extension of the courtroom, in Witness for the Prosecution, Leonard Vole, a young American living in England, is accused of murdering a middle-aged lady he met in the street while shopping. His wife hires the best lawyer available because she is convinced, or rather she knows, another classic courtroom drama is U. S. playwright Reginald Roses Twelve Angry Men, which is set in the jury deliberation room of a New York Court of Law. Eleven members of the jury, aiming at a verdict of guilty. The popularity of TV brought about the emergence of TV series featuring detectives, investigators, special agents, lawyers, in Britain, The Avengers about the adventures of gentleman agent John Steed and his partner, Emma Peel, achieved cult status. In Germany, Derrick became a household word, breaking Bad character Walter White is a methamphetamine drug manufacturer, this offered a different approach whereby the protagonist is the criminal instead of being the detective. Crime films may fall under several different subgenres and these include, Crime comedy - A hybrid of crime and comedy films. Mafia comedy looks at organized crime from a comical standpoint, humor comes from the incompetence of the criminals and/or black comedy. Examples include Analyze This, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, In Bruges, tower Heist and Pain & Gain. Crime drama - A combination of crime and dramatic films, examples include such films as Straight Time and Badlands. Crime thriller - A thriller in which the characters are involved in crime, either in its investigation, as the perpetrator or, less commonly. While some action films could be labelled as such for merely having criminality and thrills, the emphasis in this genre is the drama, examples include Untraceable, Silence of the Lambs, Heat, Seven, Witness, Memories of Murder, The Call, and Running Scared

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Comedy
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In a modern sense, comedy refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, and stand-up comedy. The origins of the term are found in Ancient Greece, in the Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a performance which pits two groups or societies against each other in an amusing agon or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a Society of Youth and a Society of the Old, a revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions that pose obstacles to his hopes. Satire and political satire use comedy to portray persons or social institutions as ridiculous or corrupt, parody subverts popular genres and forms, critiquing those forms without necessarily condemning them. Similarly scatological humour, sexual humour, and race humour create comedy by violating social conventions or taboos in comic ways, a comedy of manners typically takes as its subject a particular part of society and uses humor to parody or satirize the behaviour and mannerisms of its members. Romantic comedy is a genre that depicts burgeoning romance in humorous terms. The adjective comic, which means that which relates to comedy is, in modern usage. Of this, the word came into usage through the Latin comoedia and Italian commedia and has, over time. The Greeks and Romans confined their use of the comedy to descriptions of stage-plays with happy endings. Aristotle defined comedy as an imitation of men worse than the average, however, the characters portrayed in comedies were not worse than average in every way, only insofar as they are Ridiculous, which is a species of the Ugly. The Ridiculous may be defined as a mistake or deformity not productive of pain or harm to others, the mask, for instance, in the Middle Ages, the term expanded to include narrative poems with happy endings. It is in this sense that Dante used the term in the title of his poem, as time progressed, the word came more and more to be associated with any sort of performance intended to cause laughter. During the Middle Ages, the comedy became synonymous with satire. They disassociated comedy from Greek dramatic representation and instead identified it with Arabic poetic themes and forms and they viewed comedy as simply the art of reprehension, and made no reference to light and cheerful events, or to the troubling beginnings and happy endings associated with classical Greek comedy. After the Latin translations of the 12th century, the term gained a more general meaning in medieval literature. Starting from 425 BCE, Aristophanes, a playwright and satirical author of the Ancient Greek Theater wrote 40 comedies,11 of which survive. Aristophanes developed his type of comedy from the satyr plays

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Sally Kirkland
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Sally Kirkland is an American film and television actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Anna, Kirkland was born in New York City, New York. She was named after her mother, Sally Kirkland, who was an editor at Vogue and LIFE magazines. Her father, Frederic McMichael Kirkland, worked in the metal business. Kirkland began acting Off-Broadway in 1963, after a few uncredited and bit parts in film and television, she appeared in the underground film Coming Apart. In the 1970s, she had roles in popular films such as The Sting, The Way We Were, A Star Is Born. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Anna, and she won a Golden Globe Award and her performance received widespread critical praise, in a performance that Rita Kempley writing for the Washington Post deemed superb. Kirkland hosts a program on the syndicated HealthyLife Radio Network. Films in which she has appeared include EDtv, JFK, Adam and Steve, Kirkland is also a health activist including advocating for women harmed by breast implants. She founded the Kirkland Institute for Implant Survival Syndrome in August 1998, Kirkland is an ordained minister in the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness

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Gene Simmons
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Chaim Witz, known professionally as Gene Simmons, is an Israeli-American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, actor and television personality. Also known by his stage persona The Demon, he is the bass guitarist and co-lead singer of Kiss, chaim Witz was born on August 25,1949 at Rambam Hospital, in Haifa, Israel. At age 8, he emigrated to New York City, with his mother, Simmons was raised in a Jewish household, where he practised playing his guitar hours without end. His mother, Flóra Florence Klein, was born in Jánd, the name Klein, which means small in German, has the Hungarian equivalent Kis, this, however, did not give the band its name. Simmons mother survived internment in Nazi concentration camps and she and her brother, Larry Klein, were the only members of the family to survive the Holocaust. Simmons father, Feri Witz, also Hungarian-born, remained in Israel, Simmons says the family was dirt poor, scraping by on bread and milk. In the United States, Simmons changed his name to Eugene Klein, before his musical career began, Simmons worked a variety of jobs in the city. An excellent typist, he served as an assistant to an editor of the fashion magazine Vogue, a significant influence on Simmons was the Beatles. There is no way Id be doing what I do now if it wasnt for The Beatles, I was watching The Ed Sullivan Show and I saw them. Those skinny little boys, kind of androgynous, with hair like girls. It blew me away that these four boys the middle of nowhere could make that music, Simmons became involved with his first band, Lynx, then renamed The Missing Links, when he was a teenager. Eventually, he disbanded the band to form The Long Island Sounds, while he played in these bands, he worked at odd jobs on the side to make more money, including trading used comic books. Simmons attended Sullivan County Community College in Loch Sheldrake, New York and he then joined a new band, Bullfrog Bheer, and the band recorded a demo, Leeta, this was later included on the Kiss box set. Simmons formed the rock band Wicked Lester in the early 1970s with Stanley Eisen and recorded one album and they decided to form the ultimate rock band, and started looking for a drummer. Simmons and Stanley found an ad placed by George Peter John Criscuola who was playing clubs in Brooklyn at the time, during this time, Criss and Simmons also appeared on an unreleased album by Captain Sanity together with members from Criss previous band Chelsea. Paul Frehley responded to an ad they put in The Village Voice for a guitar player. Kiss released their debut album in February 1974. Stanley took on the role of lead performer on stage, while Simmons became the force behind what became an extensive Kiss merchandising franchise

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Dennis Burkley
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Dennis Henry Burkley was an American actor. In a career spanning four decades, he appeared in numerous films, Burkley was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Imogene and Henry Burkley. He grew up in Grand Prairie, Texas, and graduated from Texas Christian University, in his 1980s and 1990s appearances, Burkley was most recognizable for his large 6 ft 3 in and 300 lb frame, scruffy beard, and Southern accent. However, in appearances, he lost a significant amount of weight and had a less slovenly appearance. Burkley also appeared in the drug culture drama Rush in 1991, the Chevy Chase comedy Fletch Lives, Burkley provided the voice of several supporting characters on the animated television series King of the Hill. In 2005, he wrote and directed a film titled Repetition, one of his most visible recent roles was in Kevin Costners golf comedy Tin Cup. He was often mistaken for fellow character actor Mickey Jones, Burkley was married to Laura Alderdice from 1967 until his death. He died in his sleep of an attack in Los Angeles. Dennis Burkley at the Internet Movie Database Dennis Burkley at AllMovie

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Robert Englund
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He received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, Dream Warriors in 1987 and A Nightmare on Elm Street 4, The Dream Master in 1988. Englund is a trained actor. Englund was born in Glendale, California, on June 6,1947, the son of Janis and John Kent Englund and he is of part Swedish ancestry. Englund began studying acting at the age of twelve, accompanying a friend to a theater program at California State University. While he was in school, he attended the Cranbrook Theatre School in Bloomfield Hills. Englund had five years performing in regional theater including plays by Shakespeare. He married for the first time in 1968 to the nurse Elizabeth Gardner, shortly afterward, he returned to the West Coast in search of film work, and landed a supporting role in the film Buster and Billie, directed by Daniel Petrie. Englund wound up in the 1977 film Eaten Alive directed by Tobe Hooper and he then acted out Ranger in Galaxy of Terror, produced by Roger Corman, which was released in 1981. Since then, Englund has made over 100 appearances on film and this role catapulted him to fame, and Englund became the first new horror movie star since Sir Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing in the 1960s. His association with the genre led him to top-billed roles in The Phantom of the Opera, The Mangler -- another film directed by Tobe Hooper, however, New Line underestimated his importance to the franchise and originally cast someone else as Freddy in Freddys Revenge, the first sequel. Englund is one of two actors to act out a horror character eight consecutive times, the other being Doug Bradley. Englund has said that he enjoys the role of Freddy as it gives him a break from acting out the nice guy, indeed. Makeup artists responsible for the Krueger makeup have commented that Englund was so friendly and his work in voice-over animation includes magician Felix Faust in Justice League, The Riddler on The Batman, The Vulture on The Spectacular Spider-Man, and as Dormammu on The Super Hero Squad Show. On the TV witch drama Charmed, he appeared as a demon who used the services of a lackey to lure people into a decrepit household and he also appeared on an episode of Married. With Children as The Devil. Englund performed as host of the Horror Hall of Fame awards show three times from 1989-1991, Englund made his directorial debut with the 1988 horror film 976-EVIL, co-written by future Oscar winner Brian Helgeland and starring Stephen Geoffreys. During production, Englund met set decorator Nancy Booth, who he would marry and his second feature, Killer Pad, was released direct-to-DVD in 2008. His memoir, Hollywood Monster, A Walk Down Elm Street with the Man of Your Dreams, recently he had starred in the web series Fear Clinic, where he appeared in five episodes as Dr. Andover. Englund recently noted he would welcome a guest appearance in the ABC revival of V in an interview with Todd Sokolove from Forces of Geek, but the series was canceled before he could make such a guest appearance

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Billy Ray Cyrus
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William Billy Ray Cyrus is an American singer, songwriter and actor. It was also the single in the same country in 1992 and was translated into more than 100 languages. Thanks to the video of this hit, the line dance catapulted into the mainstream, Cyrus, a multi-platinum selling recording artist, has scored a total of eight top-ten singles on the Billboard Country Songs chart. It is the album in the SoundScan era to log 17 consecutive weeks at number one and is also the top-ranking debut album by a male country artist. It ranked 43 weeks in the top 10, a total topped by one country album in history. Some Gave All was also the first debut album to enter at one on the Billboard Country Albums chart. The album has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and is the best-selling debut album of all time for a solo male artist. Some Gave All was also the album of 1992 in the US with 4,832,000 copies. In his career, he has released 35 charted singles, of which 16 charted in the top 40, from 2001 to 2004, Cyrus starred in the television show Doc. The show was about a doctor who moved from Montana to New York City. From 2006 to 2011, he co-starred in the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana with his daughter Miley Cyrus, as of 2016, he stars as Vernon Brownmule on the CMT series Still the King. William Ray Cyrus was born on August 25,1961 in Flatwoods, Kentucky, to Ron Cyrus, a politician and former steelworker, and his wife, Cyrus started singing at the age of four. His grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher, growing up, he was surrounded by bluegrass and gospel music from his family. His right-handed father played guitar however left-handed Cyrus tried to play his fathers guitar and he attended Georgetown College on a baseball scholarship before changing to music. He dropped out of Georgetown during his year, realized he wanted to become a musician after attending a Neil Diamond concert. In the 1980s, he played in a band called Sly Dog, Sly Dog was named after a one-eyed dog that Cyrus owned. While trying to get a contract in Los Angeles, Cyrus suffered many hardships including living in his neighbors car. However, in 1990, he was signed to PolyGram/Mercury and that same year, he opened for Reba McEntire

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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database

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Rotten Tomatoes
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Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by Senh Duong and since January 2010 has been owned by Flixster, in February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcasts Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, since 2007, the websites editor-in-chief has been Matt Atchity. The name, Rotten Tomatoes, derives from the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes when disapproving of a stage performance. From early 2008 to September 2010, Current Television aired the weekly The Rotten Tomatoes Show, featuring hosts, a shorter segment was incorporated into the weekly show, InfoMania, which ended in 2011. In September 2013, the website introduced TV Zone, a section for reviewing scripted TV shows, Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12,1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His goal in creating Rotten Tomatoes was to create a site where people can get access to reviews from a variety of critics in the U. S. As a fan of Jackie Chans, Duong was inspired to create the website after collecting all the reviews of Chans movies as they were being published in the United States, the first movie whose reviews were featured on Rotten Tomatoes was Your Friends & Neighbors. The website was an success, receiving mentions by Netscape, Yahoo. and USA Today within the first week of its launch. They officially launched it on April 1,2000, in June 2004, IGN Entertainment acquired rottentomatoes. com for an undisclosed sum. In September 2005, IGN was bought by News Corps Fox Interactive Media, in January 2010, IGN sold the website to Flixster. The combined reach of both companies is 30 million unique visitors a month across all different platforms, according to the companies, in May 2011, Flixster was acquired by Warner Bros. In early 2009, Current Television launched the version of the web review site. It was hosted by Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox and written by Mark Ganek, the show aired every Thursday at 10,30 EST on the Current TV network. The last episode aired on September 16,2010 and it returned as a much shorter segment of InfoMania, a satirical news show that ended in 2011. By late 2009, the website was designed to enable Rotten Tomatoes users to create, one group, The Golden Oyster Awards, accepted votes of members for different awards, as if in parallel to the better-known Oscars or Golden Globes. When Flixster bought the company, they disbanded the groups, announcing, in the meantime, please use the Forums to continue your conversations about your favorite movie topics. As of February 2011, new community features have been added, for example, users can no longer sort films by fresh ratings from rotten ratings, and vice versa